Recent content by tenken

Wow, I'm fairly certain not cleaning your LCD for so long after a significant mess can cause permanent damage to the screen. Usually a damp (not dripping wet) paper towel is enough, just wipe off the moisture with a dry paper towel afterwards. Staples and other stores also carry "Kensington...

Wow, this post is baffling. Anyway think of all you can do with the extra speakers: It's very useful to have replacements around in case your original sattelites fail, plus you can hook the second set up to an amp of their own. No matter what you do, this all works out in your favor, so there...

No I don't have the 2405, it's just common sense. I've also noticed that the components are much better than your only other HD option on the 2405, the VGA input. If you already have a 28" widescreen HDTV though, you should just stick with that. Why exactly do you want to use the 2405 for this...

Use the component cables with the 360, and buy the component adapter for the original Xbox.

The easiest thing to do is dual boot XP with Win2k. This way you can still run the programs you need in Win2k, and have the X-Fi working in XP. You can install a secondary sound card or use onboard to get sound in WIn2k. Just create a separate NTFS partition of about 10-15GB for XP. That...

The RioRad software gives you MSC functionality only for the computer that you install it on, so yes that would be a solution to your initial question. I think some of the responders jumped ahead and thought you were asking for MSC functionality as an upgrade for the Karma itself, so that it can...

If we're counting legally-grey sites like the one above, then I highly recommend AllofMP3.com. The site allows you to download music encoded in Ogg/Mp3/FLAC and other codecs, and you pay by file size. A full album in Q7 Ogg usually runs me around $2. The site looks to be down for maintenance...

Your performance gain sounds about normal, it rarely ever goes above 10% if using a sound card. The thing is you shouldn't be looking at this entirely in terms of FPS, as that isn't the only factor when gaming. You should take into account that a dedicated sound card (especially an Audigy 2 and...

My IS7 died and I'd like to upgrade to its Intel 875 uber-equivalent. I've wanted the Max 3 (with the OTES) ever since it came out, but sadly it was not yet released when I was building my system a few years ago. Now I can't find this board anywhere. I know it goes up sometimes on Ebay, but it...

If you're going CRT there's no point in getting a 17" one simply because they're so damn cheap now. Seriously, forget it. Your choices are either a 19"+ CRT, or a 17"+ LCD. The cheapest solution would be a nice Trinitron-esque 19". You'll be running that at 1280x1024 for normal computer...

I think you mean the Rio Carbon, the Karma is the 20GB model. Even though Rio went bust, I still wouldn't mind picking up a Carbon myself, that's a gorgeous little player with some great features. You may also be able to find a good deal on the Carbon since Rio is no more. If you don't want...

Ok I'm confused, perhaps I'm not parsing your first post correctly. If the DVDs boot, then what exactly is the problem? Is it having trouble running Ghost once it boots? Remember it doesn't matter if you don't see ghost.exe on those discs, and it's not like you're going to be ghosting while...

The only files that you should see in a bootable ghost dvd are boot.bin and bootcat.bin. You won't necessarily see a ghost.exe file. Have you actually tried booting these discs? :P

This commercial for Devil May Cry is pretty damn memorable :P Gotta love the Japanese ads--

At this point the thread probably doesn't belong here anymore, it's more about reading data off of these scratched CDs. The best method I can think of is using one of those disc buffers that wear down the bottom of the disc a bit. That's assuming that the scratch is on the bottom. If it's...